Man prays for repose of father's soul in N. Korea

Man prays for repose of father's soul in N. Korea

HAMHUNG, North Korea - Eighty-year-old Tatsuo Kondo, a member of a group of Japanese citizens visiting graves of their kin who died during and after World War II, prays for the repose of his father's soul before a tree on the mountainside in Hamhung, northeastern North Korea, on Sept. 21, 2014.

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